One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
If you wished to be loved, love.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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